Energy Efficient Protocol to Supervise Overground Pipelines using WSN
Neetu Verma, Neha Pandey, Prince Rajpoot · 2018
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a prominent field which is actively researched by many researchers. WSN is a network which contains the huge number of tiny wireless sensor nodes having ability of communication, signal processing, sensing the information from its domain and one of the important, transmitting the information to the sink node after performing some mathematical computations. It is widely used in different applications as directory control, ecology, military, health issues and miscellaneous parts of pipelines. Each node of the network has the different amount of energy and nodes lose their energy in receiving and transmitting information. Due to usability in remote areas, the energy of these sensor nodes can not be recharged again. So it is important to find out the way of saving energy of nodes in transmitting the sensed information. In pipelines, a WSN with non-rechargable sensor nodes is needed that is having the property of sensing and routing the information to sink. So that every abnormal activity can be reported to the sink. Since, it is a remote area so the data communication should be in efficient manner to increase the lifetime of WSN. In this paper, we consider an overground gas pipeline that is monitored underground, on the pipeline and around the pipeline. For this, we have designed an architecture of WSN to collect information about any abnormal activity using an energy efficient approach.